Freegal Music Reviews

[edit 8 Aug 2020]: Earlier this year FreegalMusic started working, where I was able to log in. But today I went to use it and again it won't let me log in. My library's not showing up in their selection again, thus no place for me to enter my library card number to log in. Their website isn't compatible for my phone browser so I can't access that way either. Can only access Freegal through my laptop now.

[Previous review]:

I can no longer access my library through it. FreegalMusic gives other libraries in the state but not the one in my area. I can still log in to Freegal on my computer through my library website. But FreegalMusic had made it easy to listen while "on the go."

Besides this, when I logged in with my computer recently, I found all my saved streams, wishlists, and download history have all been deleted from my account. Between that and not being able to use FreegalMusic, it's been quite disappointing.

Please fix the errors below.

1. after pausing a song, anytime I return to FreegalMusic that song immediately begins playing on its own. Someone else mentioned this issue, and it still hasn’t been fixed.
2. after your list of downloaded songs is sorted, leaving the list reverts the list back to the default setting.
3. if I select a song from my download list, it will only play that one song and stop after that. There is no way to continue a stream of music beginning with the song selected— the only option is to play all songs from the beginning of the list to the end.

Upgraded and unable to set library. Loading screen appeared and immediately crashed.

Reinstalled (losing months of downloads) and then asked to turn on location services to connect.

Wonder if I had done this before reinstalling if I could have connected? If so, really poor programming to assume everyone has location services on and to crash if you don’t.

I spent quite a bit of time organizing my downloaded music into “subject” groups so I could stream specific types of music. I have especially been listening to my nature sounds as Covid disabled me and I now have trouble tolerating music with lyrics. Now my hundreds of downloads are disorganized and random, so I can no longer choose what type of music to listen to. Who thought this would be a good idea in an update? I’m very frustrated.

FreegalMusic is a little irritating to say the least. I search up a simple song with a well known name and I get 50+ covers or other artists and other random things mixed in. Doesn’t have a lot of songs as well, and just not a great app all around. Albeit you get free songs, five a week through your library, but that does take some time to build a playlist.

Whenever Im playing music and decide to go to another app, the music stops when the song is over. I cannot go to the previous track, the next track, or restart the song unless I’m directly in FreegalMusic .

1. The last time I updated FreegalMusic , the “Wish List” option was gone and with it went my entire “Wish List”. It had to be researched again, taking hours.
2. The Wish List was gone and replaced by “Favorites”, but when songs are downloaded from the Favorites, they are not automatically removed from Favorites like previously with “Wish List”. Now, I need to individually choose songs to “Remove from Favorites”. Still, they visually remain after removing until FreegalMusic is closed and re-opened.
3. Also, when moving songs from Search to Favorites, FreegalMusic puts several of each song (ie. I save 3 songs, but 15 appear on the Fav list).
4. FreegalMusic catalog of songs & artists is not completely cross-referenced. A search for a song title might yield one list, while a search of the original artist may not even contain the same song and vice versa. Also, a searched for song that yields “no results” can sometimes be found in it’s original form on a “Best of …” album.
All in all, I still very much appreciate what I get for free… but it frequently takes some extra work on my end. Thanks and keep working on it!!

there are a couple of things that need to be fixed.

1. i just downloaded FreegalMusic. i realized that you can play whatever you want at any time for free, so that’s great. i was transferring my christian playlist to FreegalMusic (the song has 33 songs) and freegal only had 10 of the songs. 10! so the point is, add more songs.

2. while i was transferring the songs, i turned on a song i like. after it played 1 time i paused it. when i closed FreegalMusic and opened it again, it started playing again. this is annoying above all, but plz fix it.

-matthew

I just came back to Freegal after being away for a long while. I was away because honestly, I forgot about it. You only get a few song a week but hey, they are free! You have to have the time and patience to sort through and find the songs and artists and listen to it completely before you download it. I love that they give you a wishlist for when you’ve met your limit for the week you can add to your wishlist for the next week. Like I said, it takes a lot of time but if you hang in there you can build a great collection and sort them into playlist.

You must have patience using FreegalMusic. It’s free through libraries, but you have to work at it. You get 5 downloads a week, and after a year you have a good set of songs. There is unlimited streaming, and you can load songs there, but you need internet access to play streaming. I have found a lot of interesting songs and musicians through Freegal, as it seems anyone can upload their music. It is missing a lot of great performers but you can find almost any song. Just takes awhile to find just the right version.

So I downloaded FreegalMusic a few months ago and it has been amazing. Great design, almost no glitches, awesome interface, good music, and all for free! This would be the dream app except for one minor problem. It’s selection of songs does not include pop music bands such as Taylor Swift, Imagine Dragons, etc. Overall though, FreegalMusic is amazing and should be used by everybody. It even has a good selection of other genres such as rock and alternative. I highly recommend FreegalMusic to everybody who likes alternative, rock, rap, latin, and even old-school hip-hop. This is definitely the future of music.

My first review was accurate at two stars. FreegalMusic was updated to make the local playlists accessible. Based on this update I changed my rating to four stars.

Original review:
It used to be a 4 star app for me. Not perfect but workable. I had created a few playlists of downloaded songs and enjoyed them. Just updated to the new version and personal playlists are gone. This makes it far less useful.

I love downloading my 5 songs every week and had accumulated a great playlist of more than 200 songs. For the second time since I’ve had FreegalMusic , after an update, it asked me to login and when I did, my playlist was blank, all the songs that have taken me months to download, are gone.
I have to start all over over again for the third time. It has erased my two previous playlists.
Very disappointing

Freegal is a great app for me to use but fails to meet all 5 stars in my star rating. FreegalMusic is missing a lot of great songs, but it still has some of my favorite songs. FreegalMusic could be more useful and flexible, if it had more features. Overall, it’s a great app but it could be better.

Love the free music! Although there wasn’t a wide variety of music that I usually listen to, I was able to find a couple of music that I often listen to. Not bad considering that all the music are free. Something you guys can do to improve FreegalMusic is to add a scrubber in the control center music player. I’d appreciate it a lot!

FreegalMusic works very well with no crashes. I noticed in some reviews people complaining about the selection of music not being as good as they would like. I would like to remind them this is app is free. If you want all the latest music then you have to pay and use some other app. For being a free app, it works well and has a reasonably good selection of music, videos and audiobooks. I love FreegalMusic !

Sooooo many songs and artists!! If it doesn’t work in India, seems kinda unfair to give it 1 star. It states, clearly, that it’s for use through your Public Library. Probably not available Internationally!!
I think it’s fun, and love downloading 5 free songs a week. FREE!!! How can you beat it? Thank you!!!!!

I have over 300 songs now! The mix of genre is great!! Dependable source to get a few songs to add each week. Music videos also to watch or build a playlist for. Most important you can sample songs before you download it. All you need is your library card. What ever city or county you live gas a public library. Its usually free to get your library card and thats it!! You can build your own private music library and make your own play lust. Ive used my PC to download my music library to my Itunes for windows 10 music library. Can play on all my devices. I even made a CD back up!! You will Love it with just a little patience and time!

I have been downloading songs off the freegal website for months now with access from my library card. However, the audio streaming quality on the desktop website always left something to be desired. The audio quality on FreegalMusic is much better!

The music selection on here can be a bit eclectic, but I have still found lots of great stuff! A good way to search out good or popular songs is to check the playlists different public libraries put together. And it’s all free! (well, payed for by taxes. Support your public libraries for great services like this!)

App works well and has surprisingly good selection of music. And it’s totally free, thanks to your local library. You can even download five mp3’s per week to play offline.